just part of it. ♪ flash, aah-ah ♪ flash, aah-ah >>> back here with my special guests, david and susan axelrod in america at the moment? >> you know, epilepsy affects 1% to 2% of the population worldwide, so in a world that's 50 million, in this country it's about 3 million. >> a lot of people. >> a lot of people. it's one of the most common neurological diseases. >> and is that what we know? a lot of people, because of the stigma that goes with epilepsy, may not say anything. >> exactly. and there are some types difficult to diagnose. absonces, until they do an eeg, they may not know these are actually seizures, sometimes hundreds a day, disrupting a child's learning. >> david, when this hit you as a family, it's obviously very expensive to treat epilepsy. what kind of impacts did it have financially? >> there are all impacts on a family. financially, i was a young reporter when lauren got sick, and we had an hmo. what we discovered was that was great policy as long as you didn't get sick, and they didn't cover much of what she needed, especially like her medications, which were like $8,000 a